Wuthering Heights

Question 1

Catherine

Answer 1

• inscribed names: fragmented social identity
• tries to combine a life full of passion & a life according to social convention that ties her to her father/husband
• culture vs nature → chooses Culture by marrying Edgar
• can’t reconcile her passion with Heathcliff → self-destruction leading to her death

Question 2

Heathcliff

Answer 2

• singular name → outside social norms & patterns
• love forebidden → differences in social class & C. desire for societal advancement
• love corrupts into a lust for revenge: lies with her dead body; tyrannises his dying son; abuses his wife
• at the end: tormented by everything; dies

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

• dual narration: 1st person narrator: Lockwood & Nelly
• Dialect: Yorkshire Dialect
• poetic language: metaphors & symbols
• Landscape Imagery

Question 4

Themes

Answer 4

• Love
• Nature vs Culture → Wutherings Heights vs Thrushcross Grange
• Morality; Education

Question 5

Gothic Elements

Answer 5

• Isolated setting: moorlands of Yorkshire; remote places
• dark atmosphere: old house; harsh climate; mist; fog; darkness
• supernatural elemnts: ghostly apparitions of Catherine & Heathcliff
• Intensified Emotion: Heathcliff (vengeful; obessesd)